Every Day Is A Holiday

For a long time, I wondered if I could find a special occasion for each day of the year… Well, I’ve almost succeeded!

Of course, I included our own (Canadian) traditional holidays and I added many UN and other organisations’ international and global days, but I was particularly surprised – and somewhat amused – that our southern neighbors find all kinds of things to celebrate throughout the year : there is a National Spaghetti day, National Pie day – actually, there is a whole food celebration calendar (See January Food Holidays here)! And they celebrate Hug day, Drinking Straw day and even Sunscreen day! I didn't keep all the un-events that I have found, but I picked some that might prove ineteresting, and I also threw in a few historical facts here and there, where the absence of anything truly interesting (to me, that is) was already scheduled.

Click the following links for websites dedicated to quirky holidays - there were way too many to include them all in my own listing!):

The goal of this new section will be, aside from a reminder, to make you laugh a little and hopefully, inspire you a lot for this new scrapbooking year that is just beginning. As scrapping resolution for 2011, why not make a page a month on an unusual «holiday»? And why not create an album devoted to quirky occasions? Everyone needs a good laugh now and then; it's therapeutic!

So, enough chatting, let’s move on to more «serious» things : here is the listing for January. And do come back every month for the continuation!